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Texas Rebels Against Ethanol, Could Strike Fatal Blow

New York Times | David Streitfield | Posted 07.23.2008 | Green

Read More: Texas, Epa, Fuel, Gas Prices, Biofuel, Farmers, Food, Rick Perry, Ethanol, Crop Prices, Food Prices, Green News

The ethanol industry, until recently a golden child that got favorable treatment from Washington, is facing a critical decision on its future. Gov. R...

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Dolly Upgraded To Second Hurricane Of '08 Season

Reuters | Posted 07.22.2008 | Green

Read More: Texas, Hurricane Dolly, Extreme Weather, Brownsville, Tropical Storm Dolly, Dolly, Green News

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dolly was upgraded to the Atlantic season's second hurricane late Tuesday as it strengthened in the warm waters of the western Gu...

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Tropical Storm Dolly Threatens Coast, Oil Prices (VIDEO)

Reuters | Posted 07.22.2008 | Green

Read More: Mexico, Oil Prices, Hurricane Dolly, Texas, Extreme Weather, Tropical Storm Dolly, Green News

Tropical Storm Dolly may soon become a hurricane, and though it appears as though the storm will avoid major offshore oil rigs, oil prices have risen ...

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HuffPost And GQ Throw Party At Netroots Nation (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post, GQ | Katharine Zaleski/Dan Duray | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Texas, Netroots, Photos, Austin, Gq, Jason Linkins, Mario Ruiz, GQ HuffPost Party, HuffPost GQ Party, Netroots Nation Ausin, Nico Pitney, Sam Stein, Katharine Zaleski, Roy Sekoff, Netroots Nation Parties, Politics News

Last Friday night HuffPost and GQ got together to provide some social lubrication outside the Austin convention center for all the bloggers, journalis...

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Texas Approves Big Plan To Transmit Wind Power

New York Times | Kate Galbraith | Posted 07.21.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Wind Power, Wind Power Transmission, The Grid, T. Boone Pickens, The Energy Grid, Alternative Energy, Texas, Green News

Texas regulators have approved a $4.93 billion wind-power transmission project, providing a major lift to the development of wind energy in the state....

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Netroots Nation and My Campaign

Sherrie Matula | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sherrie Matula, Tom Delay, Texas House, Texas, Netroots, Netroots Nation, Politics News
Sherrie Matula

The netroots connections in Texas have elevated awareness of our campaign as one of the races to take back the Texas Legislature.

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New Texas Wind Power Project Is Massive

AP | JIM VERTUNO | Posted 07.17.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Wind Power, Texas, Texas Wind Power, Texas Wind Power Investment, Texas Wind Power Project, Green News

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas, headquarters of America's oil industry, is about to stake a fortune on wind power. In what experts say is the biggest in...

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Lone Star State Young Voters Talk Immigration

Ben Terris | Posted 07.15.2008 | Home

Read More: Young Voters, Texas, Mccain, Obama, Immigration, Youth, Texas Immigration Politics, Maccain Immigration, Young People Immigration, Obama Immigration, Texas Immigration, Home News
Ben Terris

All across Texas young people share similar views: they'd make illegal immigration harder and legal immigration easier. "There are plenty of jobs here, especially the kind that immigrants take."

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By Any Means Necessary

Jonathan Leigh Solomon | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, White House, Al Gore, 3 a.M., Swiftboating, Chicago, November, John Corzine, Contributors, Bush, Willie Horton, 2008, Richard Nixon, Reverend Wright, Pat Buchanan, Joseph Welch, Florida, John McCain, Karl Rove, Joe Mccarthy, Michael Bloomberg, Texas, 2000, Presidency, Machiavelli, Boss Tweed, Decency, Lee Atwater, Ross Perot, Campaign Funds, Skullduggery, Moralist, Realpolitik, $270 Million, Lyndon Johnson, Steve Forbes, Bring Us Together," Howard Beale, Barack Obama, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, "Landslide Lyndon, Hypocrite, Politics News
Jonathan Leigh Solomon

Barack Obama has gone back on his word, Barack Obama is a hypocrite ... I couldn't be happier. Truth is, if what's necessary to win in November is some outright cheating, I'd be all for that, too.

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Port Arthur, Texas: Small City, Reluctant International Toxic Dump

New York Times | Adam B. Ellick | Posted 06.19.2008 | Green

Read More: Epa, Toxic Dump Town, Veolia Environmental Services, Armpit of Texas, Port Arthur Texas, Port Arthur Toxic, Texas, Cancer Alley, Ring of Town, Toxic Waste, Texas Toxic Waste, Green News

PORT ARTHUR, Tex. -- This downtrodden chemical town on the Gulf of Mexico has no shortage of nicknames: Cancer Alley, the Armpit of Texas, Ring of Fir...

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Almost Blue: The Obama-Dean Western Campaign

Dawn Teo | Posted 06.08.2008 | Home

Read More: Nevada, 2008 Elections, President, Alaska, New Mexico, Washington, Oregon, Texas, Congress, Colorado, Arizona, Idaho, Barack Obama, Kansas, California, Obama Coattails, Obama Western Strategy, Obama McCain, Obama Dean, Obama Down-Ticket Races, Obama West, Obama Howard Dean, Obama Down Ticket, Obama Mccain West, Obama DNC, Obama Congress, Home News
Dawn Teo

Obama's army goes deep behind enemy lines in the West. He and Dean are determined to compete in red states as a matter of strategy, forcing McCain to spend money and resources on his own turf.

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Hillary Concession Broadcast To Delegates Bungled In Texas

David Chong | Posted 06.08.2008 | Home

Read More: Delegates, 2008, Volunteers, Hillary Clinton, Texas, Texas Democratic Convention, Campaign, Concession Speech, Barack Obama, Election, Home News
David Chong

Bringing Clinton supporters into the Obama fold will require a delicate courtship. But in Texas, early prospects for unity crashed along with her concession speech live big-screen feed!

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Texas Governor's Mansion Heavily Damaged By Fire

AP | KELLEY SHANNON | Posted 06.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Fire, Texas, Texas Governor's Mansion, Fire Texas Governor's Mansion, Texas Governor's Mansion Damaged, Texas Governor's Mansion Destroyed, Politics News

AUSTIN, Texas — Arson is suspected in a fire that swept through the historic Texas governor's mansion early Sunday, leaving much of the 152-year...

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Border Wall Resistance Heats Up

Marisa Treviño | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Border Wall, San Diego, Mexico, Texas, Illegal Immigrants, Immigration, Hispanics, Politics News
Marisa Treviño

Homeland Security is determined to construct as much fencing as they can along the US/Mexico border while the Bush is in office. But they're being stymied by strong resistance from local residents.

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Obama is an Expat's Dream Come True: The Son of a Global Citizen

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama's Mother, Microcredit, Hillary, Poverty Alleviation, World Peace, Nobel Peace Prize, Texas, Bush Era, Obama, American, Global Citizen, Social Business, Un, Future Generations, Muhammad Yunus, Politics News
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

Obama's mother gave a precious gift to her son, the life of both an Americanand that of human being who feels at home in many different cultures, allowing to see the similarities between us all.

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Even Texans Ditching Cars Over Gas Prices

The Wall Street Journal | Ben Casselman | Posted 06.05.2008 | Green

Read More: Texas, High Gas Prices, Gas Prices, Walking, Walkability, Dallas, Green News

Want a sure-fire sign that high gas prices are changing behavior? They're walking in Dallas. Or at least, they're talking about it. A city commission...

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Memorial Day: Remembering All Who Protect And Serve

Paul Helmke | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Texas, Law Enforcement, George H.W. Bush, Memorial Day, Police, Assault Weapons, Indiana, Washington DC, Dallas, Politics News
Paul Helmke

If you have yet to visit the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial, I encourage you make it part of your plans on your next trip to Washington, D.C.

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Texas Appeals Polygamist Sect Ruling

AP | MICHELLE ROBERTS | Posted 05.23.2008 | Home

Read More: Texas, Appeals, Flds, Polygamy, Polygamist Sect, Child Protective Services, Texas Supreme Court, Home News

SAN ANGELO, Texas — State child welfare authorities on Friday appealed a stinging court ruling that said their seizure of more than 440 children...

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TX Appellate Court Says "No Dice" on Keeping the Kids

Deborah King | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Willie Jessop, Child Protective Services, Sect Children, Texas, Third Court of Appeals, Flds, Texas FLDS Ruling, FLDS Raid, Breaking Politics News, Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Latter Day Saints, Politics News
Deborah King

We are still left with the question why any parent would willingly keep their child in a household where girls are at risk of a forced marriage to some old codger before the age of 16.

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Despite Ruling Children Remain Captive

Suzette Standring | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Child Abuse, Yearning for Zion, Children, El Dorado, Flds, Texas, Polygamists, Warren Jeffs, Politics News
Suzette Standring

For 12 of the 463 children taken from their parents at the FLDS community in Texas, a higher court found that the "round-them-all-up and let's-sort-it-all-out-later" approach is illegal and wrong.

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Texas Appellate Court Rules Against State's Seizure of the FLDS Children

Eugene Volokh | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Texas FLDS Ruling, Texas, Law, Mormonism, Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Latter Day Saints, Breaking Politics News, Politics News
Eugene Volokh

An excerpt from the court's opinion, which is a sharp and detailed rebuke of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services.

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The Best Mother's Day Gift of All

Paul Helmke | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Texas, Gun Show Loophole, Kids and Guns, Mother's Day, Illegal Guns, Guns, Million Mom March, Politics News
Paul Helmke

Eight more moms may get to kiss their child good night on Mother's Day. Another 48 moms might get to tuck their kids into their own beds of spending Mother's Day at a hospital bedside.

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Anti-Veteran Cornyn Within Reach

Jon Soltz | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Cornyn, Texas, Rick Noriega, 2008 Election, Veterans, Cornyn Reelection, Noriega Cornyn, Politics News
Jon Soltz

There is some great news coming from Texas, where two polls show that Afghanistan Veteran, Rick Noriega, is well within striking distance of Senator John Cornyn.

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Franken Called Limbaugh a Big Fat Idiot, But Just Who Was the Idiot in Limbaugh's Latest Con?

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Whites, Latinos, Rural Voters, Big Fat Idiot, Presidential Race, Texas, Blue Collar Voters, Rush Limbaugh, John Kerry, Operation Chaos, Barack Obama, Pennsylvania Primaries, Blacks, Al Franken, Ohio, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Indiana Primary, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

By dignifying anything that Limbaugh says, Kerry and Team Obama do a disservice to the success that Obama's retooled stump tactics had in making the Indiana race closer.

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Obama, the Democratic Nominee

Dave Winer | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Texas, Florida, Obama, Bowling Lesson, Democrats, HRC, Michigan, Politics News
Dave Winer

Now it's time for Obama to take a breather, prepare for HRC's concession, have a big party somewhere, and then off to Europe in June to meet with the leaders of the western alliance.

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